2025 Vintage Notes The biggest thing about the 2025 vintage is how amazingly dry it has been. McLaren Vale is up around 160 days without recorded rainfall at this point (17/04/25) so we are talking realdry. And while we’ve had a few dry years recently, they have still been relatively cool generally speaking, so we […]
Our label collaboration Hi everyone, Hope you are all well. It’s been a minute, to be sure. I’ve just come back from the Coonawarra region in SE South Australia, where I was judging at the Limestone Coast Wine Show. I’ve judged at many of the country’s wine shows – from the big capital city shows […]
Terroir in a Juxtaposed context. I wanted to write a little bit about my PhD thesis. As you may or may not know, my days are spent as a research scientist at the Australian Wine Research Institute. It’s a pretty cool gig. Over the past 10 years I’ve mostly worked in the sensory group, managing […]
End of Vintage 2021 So, it’s early May now and the 2021 harvest is in the books. Overall, it has been an excellent year for McLaren Vale Wines. It’s not always that you have great quality AND great quantities, but that was the story of 2021 in McLaren Vale. After the dismal volumes of 2020, […]
2021 Vintage Progress We find ourselves about ½ way through the 2021 vintage at this point. So far, I think it would be fair to say that we are in the midst of an excellent vintage. The growing season this year has been different to the last few that we have seen here in McLaren […]
Our label collaboration Another interesting part of our wines this year is our label collaboration. All of this year’s Juxtaposed wines’ labels have been done as a collaboration with Verb Syndicate Creative Studio in Wollongong. They have been curating the Wollongong and Port Kembla street art festivals ‘Wonderwalls’ over the past few years. I wanted […]
We can reflect Now that the 2019 red and 2020 Fiano are in bottle, we can reflect a little bit on what they actually deliver and how they compare to previous wines and vintages. 2019 was generally speaking a pretty good year. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was a great vintage, […]
